Month: March 2017

Concert Review: Singer Mavis Staples — Reliably Superb

March 31, 2017
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Mavis Staples’ colossal voice fully blanketed the entire venue and tucked its way into every nook and cranny.

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Film Review: “Peter the Third” — A Melancholic Israeli Comedy

March 31, 2017
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This is an old story, but the approach this time around is fresh, the acting uniformly excellent, and the pacing just right.

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CD Reviews: Andrew Manze conducts Mendelssohn and Charles Wuorinen’s Eighth Symphony et al.

March 31, 2017
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No orchestra in this country embraces the challenges of Charles Wuorinen’s hyper-intellectual style better than the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — March 31

March 31, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Book Review: “Four Princes” — Sixteenth Century Carnage

March 30, 2017
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A historian’s view of the tumultuous world of early sixteenth century Europe, an age of exploration, revolt, and religious upheaval.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — March 30

March 30, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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CD Reviews: Philip Glass Piano Works and Dessay’s Pictures of America

March 30, 2017
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There have been lots of recordings of Philip Glass to hit the market recently. One of the highlights is Víkingur Ólafsson’s Piano Works.

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Theater Review: “Chill” — Millennial Melodrama

March 29, 2017
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Chill is a solid enough attempt to dramatize a millennial coming-of-age story, but it is reluctant to probe very deeply into the guts of the zeitgeist.

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Stage Review: “Our American Hamlet” — Theatrical Redemption

March 29, 2017
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There are powerful intimations of modernity in the writhings of Edwin Booth’s psyche.

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Stage Review: “Sinners” — Theater that Matters

March 29, 2017
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Questioning Joshua Sobol’s right to write about these kinds of intimate atrocities is to suggest that stages should never address these issues.

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